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THEATER REVIEW: Alison McCartan is a beautiful 'Violet'
Updated Jan 19, 2016 at 3:27 PM
When the disfigured Violet Karl – the affecting central character in the heart-tugging musical “Violet,” the Broadway version of which is currently being given a solid New England premiere by Boston’s SpeakEasy Stage Company – boards a Greyhound bus and heads out from her hometown of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, across the South to Tulsa, Oklahoma, the anguished young woman is in search of the help she believes only a televangelist can provide. With...